Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 238 318
Rank change year-on-year -121 +80 -81
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 466 644 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 223 290 536
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £37,639
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -118 423 £66,771 -7.90% 580
London -28 260 £80,000 - 457
Work from Home +60 259 £63,076 -4.07% 226
UK excluding London -189 154 £63,076 -2.40% 156
North of England -10 54 £68,510 -14.36% 40
North West +26 37 £85,000 +6.25% 23
East of England -11 28 £65,000 -7.14% 22
South East -144 26 £47,500 -32.14% 42
South West -84 21 £69,056 +15.09% 17
Midlands -49 20 £60,000 -12.09% 14
West Midlands -26 17 £60,000 -13.67% 7
Yorkshire -31 14 £61,963 +90.65% 15
Scotland +7 5 £85,000 +4.62% 10
East Midlands -31 3 £95,847 +59.74% 7
Wales -43 3 £69,501 +16.11% 2
North East -49 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (3.00%) Confluence
3 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.07%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.37%) Workfront
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.86%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 85 (18.24%) AWS
2 59 (12.66%) SaaS
3 54 (11.59%) Azure
4 53 (11.37%) iPaaS
5 18 (3.86%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.43%) GCP
7 14 (3.00%) GitHub
7 14 (3.00%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.93%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.72%) Figma
12 7 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.29%) Asana
14 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.86%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.86%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.86%) Miro
15 4 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 4 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 80 (17.17%) Broadband
2 30 (6.44%) HTTP
3 10 (2.15%) WAN
4 8 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.29%) Firewall
5 6 (1.29%) LAN
6 5 (1.07%) Multicast
6 5 (1.07%) Network Security
6 5 (1.07%) NGN
7 4 (0.86%) MPLS
7 4 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.64%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) DNS
9 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.23%) Metadata
2 19 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.86%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.86%) RDBMS
4 12 (2.58%) Power BI
5 7 (1.50%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.07%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.64%) Big Data
7 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.64%) Tableau
8 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (5.79%) JIRA
2 18 (3.86%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.29%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 159 (34.12%) Marketing
2 145 (31.12%) Social Skills
3 141 (30.26%) Finance
4 69 (14.81%) Banking
5 60 (12.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (12.45%) Retail
8 52 (11.16%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (10.30%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (9.87%) Law
11 30 (6.44%) Public Sector
12 29 (6.22%) Legal
13 22 (4.72%) Back Office
14 14 (3.00%) Italian Language
14 14 (3.00%) Retail Banking
15 13 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (2.58%) Manufacturing
17 11 (2.36%) German Language
18 9 (1.93%) Spanish Language
18 9 (1.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (28.76%) Product Manager
2 82 (17.60%) Lead
3 74 (15.88%) Product Owner
4 69 (14.81%) Senior
5 40 (8.58%) Senior Manager
6 37 (7.94%) Senior Product Manager
7 34 (7.30%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.65%) Development Engineer
9 30 (6.44%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.51%) Developer
11 20 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.86%) Consultant
13 17 (3.65%) Product Lead
14 15 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.00%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.00%) Business Development Consultant
15 14 (3.00%) Development Consultant
15 14 (3.00%) Platform Manager
16 12 (2.58%) AWS Developer
16 12 (2.58%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.87%) REST
2 18 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (1.50%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.50%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.29%) CSS
4 6 (1.29%) HTML
5 5 (1.07%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.86%) Keras
6 4 (0.86%) LangChain
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.64%) .NET
7 3 (0.64%) LangGraph
7 3 (0.64%) Spring
7 3 (0.64%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.43%) FHIR
8 2 (0.43%) Pandas
8 2 (0.43%) Plotly
8 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
9 1 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 165 (35.41%) Product Ownership
2 65 (13.95%) Social Media
3 54 (11.59%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.59%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.73%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.65%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.51%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.36%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.72%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.50%) Podcast
12 6 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.01%) Linux
2 19 (4.08%) Unix
3 9 (1.93%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (65.88%) Roadmaps
2 220 (47.21%) Agile
3 137 (29.40%) Product Roadmap
4 127 (27.25%) Product Vision
5 108 (23.18%) Decision-Making
6 93 (19.96%) AI
6 93 (19.96%) Mentoring
7 92 (19.74%) User Stories
8 91 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 83 (17.81%) Customer Experience
11 82 (17.60%) Product Backlog
11 82 (17.60%) Product Requirements
12 74 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (15.45%) Sprint Planning
14 67 (14.38%) Workflow
15 64 (13.73%) Software Engineering
16 63 (13.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 61 (13.09%) Matrix Organization
18 60 (12.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.80%) Java
2 38 (8.15%) Python
3 27 (5.79%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.29%) Bash
5 18 (3.86%) Go
6 10 (2.15%) SQL
7 6 (1.29%) Bicep
8 3 (0.64%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) C++
8 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.64%) PHP
8 3 (0.64%) R
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (15.67%) Degree
2 19 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.93%) HND
7 8 (1.72%) HNC
8 7 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.50%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.86%) CCNA
10 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.86%) CSPO
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.64%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) CIMA
12 2 (0.43%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.43%) MCSA
12 2 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.36%) QA
2 19 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.15%) GDPR
4 9 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.86%) PERC
5 4 (0.86%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) HL7
6 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Firmware
3 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.43%) vSphere
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (6.87%) Terraform
2 22 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.86%) Ansible
3 18 (3.86%) Argo
3 18 (3.86%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.43%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (12.88%) Adobe
2 46 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.01%) Google
4 14 (3.00%) Oracle
5 10 (2.15%) Cisco
6 9 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.29%) Dell
8 5 (1.07%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.07%) CQG
8 5 (1.07%) Databricks
8 5 (1.07%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.07%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.07%) Juniper
8 5 (1.07%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.07%) Reuters
8 5 (1.07%) Trayport
9 4 (0.86%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.86%) Toshiba